RSSBuys.com
I was reading Dave Winer’s RSS weblog earlier this week. Dave said he hated ads in RSS feeds but that he might be seduced into subscribing to ad-only feeds if they were interesting to him.
So ….. I got to thinking. What if we could create a club – like Costco almost – where bloggers and blog readers could be offered special deals by vendors. The more the demand the better the deal.
With that in mind I have created an experiment. http://www.rssbuys.com is a site dedicated to bringing good offers to bloggers and blog readers alike. Maybe Scoble could get us a deal on TabletPC’s. 
You can surf the site or subscribe to the feed.
if it seems useful I intend to do 2 things. Firstly, allow custom RSS feeds where you only get offers related to stuff that interests you. And secondly, go and negotiate great deals directly with vendors. Right now the content is deals I think are good based on a few affiliate relationship I have put in place.
Please comment. I need to know if this is a good idea or not.
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Building to sell?
Paid Content has an item today that comments on del.icio.us having gotton an investment from a group of notables, including Esther Dyson, Mark Andreesson and others its here.
At the bottom of the piece, following a reminder that some of these investors were also in Flickr – recently sold to Yahoo, is the following commment:
“Hard not to wonder if they’re in for the long haul or if this is a build-and-sell gig.”
The implication – which I must admit I am imputing – is that there is something unsavoury about building to sell versus being “in for the long haul”. Man, how wrong can you be?
Here are my top ten reasons for selling:
- You have built a feature not a product.
- There are no known business models for what you do.
- You have a technology but not a product
- You are not solving a widespread problem
- You can’t make a living from it.
- It is sucking up a lot of your time because people like using it.
- It has costs associated with scaling that it can’t meet itself.
- It’s the only way to get the funding to make it what your vision knows it can be.
- $x [fill in the blank] is a lot of money and I can do a lot more things with it.
- Somebody wants to buy it for their own portfolio of features and you like them.
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